Apple Music no longer shows album artwork on playlists

I now have to do work to get something that used to just happen. Technology is supposed to make life easier. It is the very small things that can push the consumer to other companies. I hope that I will simply have the option to have my playlists like I used to with the album art automatically added.

We can't be the only ones that have an issue with this, can we? Other than sending product feedback to Apple, how do we get them to give us the choice to put something back the way it was, which was wonderful. I am choosing my words very carefully is to not have my comment be deleted, but I simply don't know what to do. As it is, now I have to scour the Internet for album art and create my own artwork based on that. Who thought this was a good idea?

I agree with everyone who says this change was a bad idea. I used the artwork to differentiate between playlists quickly, and I appreciated the amalgamation of album covers Apple Music generated when a playlist had songs from several albums.

Apple— please listen. We liked the old way better.

Please Apple!!!! We prefer the old method of creating a playlist that loads the albumcovers! This new "color" is terribly boring!

While we are here, can we please choose a default setting for the field options for playlists!!!

Why must we change settins whenever we log on?

PLEASE!!! hear us and respond!!!

It's not working for me. It did for the first playlist I tried on my iPhone after reading your post. I added 4 tracks to a playlist called Test Playlist, and it generated the artwork with those four covers. A few minutes later it changed to a grayscale cover.

Another test playlist on iPhone just got the grayscale cover art. Same on iPad and Mac.

Something weird going on.

I’ve started playlists on my phone and iMac recently and the album covers were happening!

However my greatest wish is for Apple to give us the option of choosing a default setting for how we view our playlist.

I have to change from icons to songs every time. It’s so frustrating!

The new Cooke Music on Mac is absolutely atrocious! I import an album and want to create a playlist of it. I used to do this and it would add the album artwork to each track and the playlist. No more! what a retrospective idea. It won't even allow me to add album artwork not matter what Apple instructions I follow. Apple are getting worse with lots of, supposed, updates. Very disappointing

There used to be a site that offered the old itunes layout which was superb. Worked perfectly but it now seems to have disappeared since Apple made the gigantic mistake of deleting itunes when you upgrade and putting the disaster that is Apple Music app in its place. Just attrocious and Apple don’t care at all.

The iOS 17.3 updates released today don't fix this issue. However, there is now an option to share and collaborate on playlists. Good to see that important work is going on over there in Apple Music Towers.

/Sarcasm

I too am just seeing this for the first time. This is terribly disappointing. This is terribly boring. The type of thing that would have me consider jumping to a competitor. Probably ridiculous, I know, but my OCD may not be able to overcome this.

This is the worse change I've experienced. Music lovers can instantly identify an album by looking at its cover, not some simplistic design. What on Earth were Apple thinking? It's also actually slower to create a playlist, as it no longer automatically adds the album title, which you used to be able to then leave as is, or edit. I particularly loved the four album covers in a playlist design feature. All of this gone because someone inside Apple thought this new playlist version was a good idea. Did anybody ask for this? I very much doubt it but even if they did, surely the option to use either method would have been a better way to go and more considerate to its many users.

I'm an old user (69), so probably not in Apple's considered demographic but it's obvious from the comments on this thread and others that this is not a popular implementation. So, I'm sitting here with my M1 MacBook Air, iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Series 9... and a version of Apple Music that I no longer find suitable for my needs. Thanks, Apple.

Apple you must at least give us the option to build our playlist which include the album artwork. It’s most appealing and satisfying to be able to look at each unique playlist covers when choosing which ones we want to listen to. Keep growing and doing new things but give us an option to chose artwork for our playlist.

It's hopeless. I am held hostage by the cheeeezy artwork that Apple has embedded into my musicAlbums.

I might 1)go to the older computer iTUNEs and drag a play list track by track to a flash drive.

2) go to newer computer with new but not improved red music ICON open up Play list library. 3) create a new play list and drag the mp3 files to the Play list 4) see if that works 5)plug in the flash drive and drag the mp3 files to the desk top no dragging and dropping files anymore directly to the play list . U have to click on the file , as it plays in iTunes click for a drop window then EDIT TO PLAY LIST. Apple makes changes that are not improvements. The cheezy artwork is all geared to a visual that may elicit a purchase. Boy Apple is either run by an A.I. or ADHD children who can't organiZe a sock drawer. It is so sad. ADHD children can be helped. APPLE can't. The tech team is thin skinned and arrogant.

A bit of a different question, does anyone have a very large music library on an external hard drive? I do and in recent years have been having chronic problems with the library being read etc. anyone else having this issue?